Posted
by
CowboyNealon Friday January 23, 2004 @01:58AM
from the critical-looks dept.

strider69666 writes "Over at Overclockers.com they have a review of several thermal compounds that claim to have 99% pure silver content. 'I decided to test Arctic Silver 5, Arctic Silver 3, OCZ Ultra II Premium Silver Compound, and CompUSA Silver Thermal Grease. This test was not conducted to test performance, but rather to determine if these compounds have Silver as an ingredient.' Using a professionally mixed testing solution, they found that several brands do not, in fact, contain any silver at all! So, are you getting what you are paying for?"

No, mine isn't. And by the way, despite the claims of the manufacturer, Soylent green is not 100% people. Quit believing advertising, and you will be just fine. Better yet, take up spectroscopy as a hobby. Chicks dig spectroscopes!

It is silver. Don't forget, silver is a not only an element on the periodic table, but a color. Just like some of the 'copper' heatsinks are nothing more than gold colored cheaper metals. If it were real silver, and cost $.99 a tube, I'd make a killing on the commodities market. I'd bet a pile of 'gold' that's the excuse.

What's next, KFC saying their chicken is good for you? Oh wait...
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Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the 80's)

This is a situation where a company's extremely quick action--which is probably going to reach virtually everyone who even knows about the problem (the parent is still "above the fold" here on/.)--may actually have the effect of increasing brand loyalty.

Hell, I don't buy the stuff, but if I did, I'd switch to theirs on the basis of this response alone.

working in a local mom in pop type store some dudecame in wanting help getting his heatsink off.Sure enough that baby was stuck tighter than a frogs ass. I asked "did you install this?" "yep! Iput it on with JB-WELD for a nice snug fit."

I think at some point we need to start modding article text postings as off-topic. Nothing destroys a good slashdot conversation like a return to the main article....it also undermines the slashdotting attempt.

For best results, put heatsinks on the fans to cool the air more. You might want to point a fan at the fan, too. Actually, if you did this enough times, you could reach absolute zero or even absolute -10.

OCZ would like to take this time to spin doctor a recent article published at Overclockers.com, which shows that OCZ Ultra 2 thermal compound has no silver content.

It is not really OCZ's fault, we don't actually make the stuff. OCZ is a victum just like you! Someone in China did it and we couldn't have possibly known because we outsourced our quality control as well. This required us to trust a single independent lab test to be representive of the quality of all batches of OCZ Ultra 2 thermal compound.

Now that we have been caught with our pants down, we have submitted a second batch to our outsourced quality control and confirmed that it is all China's fault. But we would like to point out that the compound did contain 30% silver by weight. We have reached the conclusion that this recent batch (actually, it might be multiple batchs but we can't afford to test each one to be sure) did not meet with the OCZ unenforced specifications.

Instead of giving your money back, we will define the steps below as "accepting full responsiblity" and would like to point out that we are taking legal action since it really is China's fault.

Beginning today we are issuing an incomplette recall of all full or partially used OCZ Ultra 2 (if you still have an empty OCZ Ultra 2 then your S.O.L. and get nothing).

1) The tube which now sells for $9 on NewEgg (and we would like to point out that the Tech Zone rated as cooling 2 degrees C below Arctic Silver) can be exchanged for Arctic Silver which you could have just bought for $7 -OR- you can get a OCZ heat sink that we need to get rid of anyways since it is discontinued!

But wait... there is more...

2) A one-size-fits-all T-shirt featuring the OCZ logo so you can be a walking advertizement for OCZ until it falls apart the third time you wash it. The fact that there is not the cotten/polyester blend we specified can not be OCZ's fault because after all... OCZ does not have it's own quality assurence and in the end everything is China's fault.

Oh... but wait... there is even more...

3) $10 off another of our products which also comes complette with no quality assurence!

Thank you for getting scre... doing business with OCZ. Remember, if it is not OCZ technology then you might actually be getting what you payed for.

You think a speculum exam is bad? Try working in A&E (ER to you yanks) at 4 in the morning when some chick comes in because she's lost a condom on the job and you have to dig it out from her semen-filled snatch. Eeewww.

My Titanium and Platinum edition software isn't really made out of Titanium or Platinum, either. What a gyp. I thought the CDs would be made out of superior metals, and here they're just the same old standard foil you get with any other commercially pressed CD. Bleaugh.